In a message dated 3/2/2005 7:05:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, Tim Maloney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:Didn't anyone yell and scream when OS9 crashed constantly? I know I did when
I was in pre-press.
I never noticed the difference. I can't believe I actually believed that X was the "crash free" system. When I switched, and having used it for 3 days I had already confirmed that that was not true.
Just curious: Did the OS crash, or did an application crash? What version of the OS? What hardware? What were you doing when you saw the crash?
Too bad SoundJam went down with Cassady and Greene, the only reason I stayed in OSX was because I appreciate how great iTunes is. Great program can't be matched by anything out there. Apple really knew what they were doing when they didn't release it for OS9, they knew people would hesitate to upgrade even more. The hesitation to upgrade to OSX has lasted several years in fact to a great number of people and companies. I do believe that the switch to System 7 and System 8 (both significant upgrades) was easier on most users lasting only about a couple of years for a massive conversion. I see people in this list and everywhere still hesitating to switch after 4+ years of the launch of OSX! Something must be going on. Geez! Steve Jobs was so wrong when he declared OS9 dead.
As an OS, OS 9 is dead. Apple will not be releasing any more versions of OS 9, and new hardware will not boot into OS 9. This is all he meant.
System 6 has been dead for a decade or so, at least as far as Apple is concerned, but the OS still has a nice following - there are still some people who use System 6 exclusively for their word processing needs. I even use it on my Plusses and SE sometimes. It boots a LOT faster than my iMac boots Panther, but that doesn't mean it's a better OS.
Instead of yelling and shouting, perhaps you should have used that time to
upgrade your machines so that they have enough resources to run OSX. Or you
could have waited until a technology refresh was warranted and bought
machines that could run it effectively.
Someone was explaining a problem that he had with iTunes on his G3 300 (I think it was a step down from my 333) in the iTunes forum at Apple, and a "helpful" guy said the same thing, actually he said "people complained too much when iTunes wouldn't work well in their old outdated systems". And I said, "who are you to tell people that they must upgrade to make the new iTunes version work for it?" If Apple advertises something is going to work with certain system why would you have to spend money and time trying to get it to work for you? one way or another every single person has their systems configured differently and everyone doesn't have the budget to be on top of technology all the time. Myself included, if we did we wouldn't be on this list to begin with! Your advice is not helpful at all.
If enough people complain, Apple will fix the problem - look at what they did for Beige owners who tried to use OS X and couldn't.
Eagle
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